CYPRUS FILM DAYS 26/4

All films will be screened in their original language with Greek and English subtitles

AU REVOIR, SLUMDOGZ!

ANDREAS KYRIACOU

94′, 2023, Cyprus

Nicosia (26/4), 18:00

Cyprus 2013. Spring. The financial crisis on the island and the fate of its entire banking system is hanging by a thread. A desperate theatre troupe decides to give its last performance: a bank robbery! Without rehearsals, without any hope of success, yet fiercely confident, six friends will be confronted with the crime movies they grew up with, and the scenarios they dreamed of as actors on stage.

THE OTHER WIDOW

MA’AYAN RYPP

83′, 2022, Israel, France

Nicosia (26/4), 20:00

Ella is a 34-year-old theatre dresser and mistress who experiences the sudden death of her lover. She attends his Shivah (a Jewish mourning ritual) while keeping her identity under wraps, and dives into a world once forbidden to her. Through intimate encounters with his brother, parents, and, especially, his wife, she examines her place in his life and eventually demands her legitimate right to mourn.

NEPTUNE FROST

SAUL WILLIAMS, ANISIA UZEYMAN

105′, 2021, Rwanda, USA

Nicosia (26/4), 22:00

Ιn the hilltops of Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region’s natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry. Set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female, memory and prescience – Neptune Frost is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.